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Beaglebone Media Center

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784399993
Pages 164 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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David Lewin David Lewin
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David Lewin was introduced early to electronics and computers by TRS-80, Atari, and Commodore 64; he has never quit since then. He spends his free time watching out for technology for the next generation of embedded systems when he is not exploring philosophy. David is a passionate and creative embedded developer who spent 20 years working for automotive companies such as Renault, Peugeot, and Faurecia, as well as for satellites with Thales Alenia Space. He currently works in Sophia Antipolis, the French Riviera Silicon Valley, designing industrial embedded systems.
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

BeagleBone Media Center
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Transforming Your BeagleBone Black into a Media Server Media Management, Shares, and Social Activities Examples of Real-world Situations Getting Your Own Video and Feeds Building Your Media Player Illuminate Your Imagination with Your Own Projects Troubleshooting and Tricks to Improve Your Server Ideas to Improve Your Server Index

Configuring RSS feeds with Leed

Our server can handle videos, pictures, and music from any source and it would be cool to have another tool to retrieve news from some RSS providers. This can be done with Leed, a RSS project organized for servers. You can have a final result, as shown in the following screenshot:

This project has a "quick and easy" installation spirit, so you can give it a try without harness. Leed (for Light Feed) allows you to you access RSS feeds from any browser, so no RSS reader application is needed, and every user in your network can read them as well. You install it on the server and feeds are automatically updated.

Note

Well, the truth behind the scenes is that a cron task does this for you. You will be guided to set some synchronisation after the installation.

Creating the environment for Leed in three steps

We already have Apache, MySQL, and PHP installed, and we need a few other prerequisites to run Leed:

  1. Create a database for Leed

  2. Download the project code and set permissions...

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Authors (1)

Profile icon David Lewin
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David Lewin was introduced early to electronics and computers by TRS-80, Atari, and Commodore 64; he has never quit since then. He spends his free time watching out for technology for the next generation of embedded systems when he is not exploring philosophy. David is a passionate and creative embedded developer who spent 20 years working for automotive companies such as Renault, Peugeot, and Faurecia, as well as for satellites with Thales Alenia Space. He currently works in Sophia Antipolis, the French Riviera Silicon Valley, designing industrial embedded systems.
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